What Is Cluster Federation?

Cluster federation is an approach to managing several clusters together by propagating resources, configuration, and policy from a control layer to each member. It lets a single definition deploy across clusters and regions and can route or balance work between them. The aim is unified management without merging the clusters into one.

Why it matters

Federation underpins multi-region and multi-cloud setups where one team manages many clusters. It keeps deploy pipelines from having to target each cluster separately.

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